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The frustration has at times been mutual: As RIM tries to re-orient, there is a lag between what level of access the company offers compared with its competitors.

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  1. noun The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia.
  2. noun The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality.
  3. noun A pearl having exceptional luster.
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  • It took a moment for his eyes to orient, as sometimes happens with an unexpected close-up on a TV screen: what is that? —  The Cosmic Rape
  • An olfactory ode to the orient, the slender grace of —  Romantic Travel News
  • The frustration has at times been mutual: As RIM tries to re-orient, there is a lag between what level of access the company offers compared with its competitors. —  SearchMobileComputing: Mobile advice
  • He said that the motive behind the orient is to bring the children and their parents together after the use the opportunity to raise money because all work without play make Jack a dull boy.
  • In the mean time, I'm going to do my best to try to simply re-orient my prorities, to enjoy the value of play with my children, to argue less with my wife about how to spend my time, to do what have always seemed to me to be pointless tasks like making the bed or folding the clothes. —  Necessary Therapy
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oriēns, orient-, rising sun, east, from present participle of orīrī, to arise, be born; see er-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English orient, n., from Old French orient, French orient = Spanish Portuguese Italian oriente, from Latin orien(t-)s, rising; as a noun (sc. sol, sun), the quarter where the sun rises, the east, day; present participle of oriri, rise, = Greek √ ὀρ in ὀρνύναι, rise, = Sanskrit √ ar, rise.
  2. from French orienter = Spanish Portuguese orientar = Italian orientate, from Middle Latin *orientare, set toward the east, set with regard to the cardinal points, from Latin orien(t-)s, the east: see orient, adjective and n.
 

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